It is football season, so are you ready to shake out your couch cushions? According to this article in the Atlantic, the NFL, which enjoys non-profit status[9], has made an art out of squeezing the taxpayers dry. No food stamps for hungry people, but let's not let our football teams down.

Starbucks has asked its customers to please stop bringing guns into its stores. The coffee chain previously had a policy to simply conform to the local laws with regard to open-carry laws. However, following a number of "demonstrations" and "Starbucks appreciation days," in which gun-toting customers would fill the stores, reportedly startling other customers, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wrote a letter asking customers to refrain from bring firearms into their stores[10]. Customers will not be refused service or asked to leave if they do take guns into the stores, but please, says Starbucks, leave your guns at home.

In Springfield, IL, Bishop Paprocki has returned Fr. Thomas Donovan to ministry[11], after an incident after Donovan called 911 from the rectory of St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Springfield, where he was pastor, and told dispatchers he had placed himself in handcuffs and needed police help to free himself. Fr. Donovan will be living as the chaplain to the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George.

In Italy, a young gypsy woman had an affair with an older priest[12]. But don't start imagining an Italian version of the Thorn Birds. The affair was actually an extortion racket that cost the priest somewhere in the ballpark of 350,000 euros.